
What Happened Colombia's peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) ended a lengthy insurgency, but some rebel leaders may be heading back to a life of crime. According to an Aug. 16 report, a FARC spokesperson said that three of the group's senior leaders were under threat of arrest by Colombian armed forces. The leaders, Luciano Marin Arango, Hernan Dario Velasquez and Henry Castellanos Garzon, had reportedly left camps in the departments of Caqueta and Meta because military forces were moving into the areas to arrest them. Marin Arango is a key member of the FARC secretariat, and Velasquez and Garzon were senior field commanders. Why It Matters If the three rebel leaders are under threat of arrest as the FARC claims, their departure from the peace process will likely have a limited effect on crime-related violence.